This debilitating disease is particularly dangerous for babies, but can affect people at any age. Vaccination remains a key ...

Whooping cough cases are on the rise as the vaccination rate for the highly contagious respiratory illness drops, a new investigation has found. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is caused by a ...

Childhood immunisation rates have dropped to the lowest level in 30 years, resulting in an increase in cases of children ...

Preliminary CDC data shows 8,485 whooping cough cases reported in 2025—twice as many as this time last year. Experts link the rise to declining childhood vaccination rates and growing anti-vaccine ...

It's been a busy respiratory illness season for doctors in Central California. But that's not the only sickness that doctors are dealing with.

Another infant has died of whooping cough in Kentucky, becoming the third child to die of the illness in the last 12 months across the state.The first two deaths in the state represented the first ...

Should you or your child have missed an appointment, it's easy to organise a catch-up session ...

Australia has recorded its highest number of childhood whooping cough cases since records began, with almost 800 notifications per 100,000 kids.

For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels.

Parents on Wednesday were notified of a whooping cough case at a Wake County school. According to the Wake County Public School System, Leesville Road High School sent a letter to parents stating the ...

Despite a slowdown compared to the beginning of the year, the number of annual whooping cough cases in Arkansas is projected to exceed 500 this year for the first time in at least 16 years, according ...